The Entire Tech Industry is Screwed

Thanks to Proton Mail for sponsoring this video! Create your free encrypted email account at http://proton.me/charalanahzard AI Director video: https://youtu.be/MRWdiYz9rM4?si=gp_5enEhDivWOftM Much credit to Ed Zitron, whose blog likely influenced plenty of what I said, in that his articles sent me down some of these rabbit holes: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ (specifically: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/ & http://wheresyoured.at/premium-the-ways-the-ai-bubble-might-burst/) Thanks to Jared Petty, Jeff McRae, and Pagan McGrath for their help with this video! SOURCES: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/why-ai-bubble-concerns-loom-as-openai-microsoft-meta-ramp-up-spending https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/nvidia-plans-heavy-cuts-to-gpu-supply-in-early-2026/ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2984629/ram-is-so-expensive-that-stores-are-selling-it-at-market-prices.html https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hdd-prices-spike-as-ai-infrastructure-and-chinas-pc-push-collide-hard-drives-record-biggest-price-increase-in-eight-quarters-suppliers-warn-pressure-will-continue https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/global-memory-shortage-crisis-market-analysis-and-the-potential-impact-on-the-smartphone-and-pc-markets-in-2026/ https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/rtx-5090-pricing-spikes-55-increase/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DTMA8m8EZNE/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== https://wccftech.com/nvidia-to-bring-back-geforce-rtx-3060-q1-2026-tackle-memory-shortages/ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-on-track-to-hit-historic-5-trillion-valuation-amid-ai-rally.html https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2025/12/nvidia-ai-financing-deals/685197/?gift=xrXaDAdKBSxXrgcSN8c0zMqiRFa0MvcsmHZWdY6gIOo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share https://fortune.com/2025/11/10/coreweave-earnings-infrastructure-debt-ai-bubble/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-100-billion-openai-investment-110000256.html https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/openai-and-nvidia-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deploy-10gw-of-nvidia-systems https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-100-billion-openai-investment-110000256.html https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ai-chips-are-reportedly-being-used-as-collateral-for-loans/ https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-chatgpt-pro-subscription-losing-money https://epoch.ai/blog/trends-in-ai-supercomputers https://medium.com/@tarifabeach/the-real-cost-of-a-gigawatt-data-center-in-the-ai-era-a0f9615585a3 https://www.razer.ai/ https://www.theverge.com/tech/854705/razer-ai-anime-waifu-hologram-desk https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-third-quarter-fiscal-2026 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/why-ai-bubble-concerns-loom-as-openai-microsoft-meta-ramp-up-spending https://www.investopedia.com/what-is-chatgpt-7094342#:~:text=Despite%20rising%20substantially%2C%20revenues%20haven,1112 https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-declares-code-red-combat-threats-chatgpt-delays-ads-effort https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what-jobs-ai-is-actually-replacing-today/ https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ea-employees-are-reportedly-frustrated-by-a-mandate-to-use-ai-mocking-the-policy-in-slack-and-suspecting-its-being-used-as-justification-for-layoffs/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s-zuckerberg-plans-deep-cuts-for-metaverse-efforts https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/ai-wall-street-big-tech https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/openais-sora-soars-to-no-1-on-the-u-s-app-store/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/chatgpts-mobile-app-is-seeing-slowing-download-growth-and-daily-use-analysis-shows/ https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/microsoft-copilot-a-i/327524/report-microsoft-365-copilot-has-only-8-million-paying-subscribers https://www.wheresyoured.at/ https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for-allegedly-misleading-millions-of-australians-over-microsoft-365-subscriptions https://s201.q4cdn.com/141608511/files/doc_financials/2026/q3/13e6981b-95ed-4aac-a602-ebc5865d0590.pdf https://www.cbsnews.com/news/theres-a-new-face-in-hollywood-generated-by-ai/ https://variety.com/2025/film/news/tilly-norwood-creator-eline-van-der-velden-ai-actress-1236574125/ (OUT OF SPACE) FIND ME: Vlogs: https://www.youtube.com/@AlanahIRL Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/@PlayWatchListen Twitch: http://twitch.tv/alanahpearce Streams (but YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/@AlanahStreams Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/alanahpearce Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alanahpearce Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alanahpearce.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charalanahzard